Disruption of writing by background speech: The role of speech transmission index

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 81, Issue , 2014, Pages 15-18

  Keus Van De Poll, Marijke ^a   Ljung, Robert ^a   Odelius, Johan ^b   Sörqvist, Patrik ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

^b LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Distraction; Irrelevant speech; Open plan office; Speech transmission index; Writing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CONDITIONS; DISTRACTION; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS; OPEN-PLAN OFFICES; SPEECH TRANSMISSION INDEX; WORK CONDITION; WORK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; OFFICE BUILDINGS; TECHNICAL WRITING;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 84897769650     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2014.02.005     Document Type: Article

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